The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-01-14
WASHINGTON NOTES.

"ASh1NUION NVTESs
THE statement of the National debt for
December showed total debt of 81, 726, OSs,-
692, less cash items. available for reduction,
of S34l, 9G2, 564, making the total debt s.. 341,
1884, 1876 The decrease for December was
s9,35s, BOP. The total cash in the treasury
December 81 was s444,9l5.7SS.
The President has committed to five
years Imprisonment the death sentence of
John ". PARROT, of Arkansas. convicted of
murder and sentenced to be hanged jan
uary IA.
THE Second Comptroller at Washington
recently decided that sunstroke acts the
same as wounds in the securing of bounty
to discharged soldiers.
THE President resumed his official duties
on the morning of the 4th. He was still
suffering from rheumatic pains but seemed
to be improving steadily.
A PRIVATE telegram was received at
Washington on the 9Th, stating that Secre-
tary Lamar was married at ten o'clock on
that morning to Mrs. Holt, at Macon, Ga.
The bill granting Mrs. Logan a pension
of 1000 annually passed the Senate with
out dissenting voice on the 9th.
A WASHINGTON special lately said that
the names of Congressman holding ''calls''
on Union Pacific would soon be published,
and there was much alarm in certain cir
cles. 1t was rumored that over $1,000, 600
can be traced to members as having been
paid by the railroad to secure the passage
of the Funding bill. One Congressman is
said to have received S25O.OO0.
1T was learned on very good authority at
Washington short time ago that the Pres
ident had no intention of calling an extra
session of Congress.
1r,na linz Tod 1x-
Prof. Emmons against Weltha A. EN-
mons, his wife, were continued in the old
circuit court room at Washington on the
9TH. There was such pressure for admit
lance that the deputy marshal was obliged
to close the door, and refused entrance to
all who were not IN some way connected
with the case.
The Government expected to begin pre-
liminary proceedings against the Bell Tele-
phone company in Boston in a short time.
THE EAST.
MIrrINEAGUE station, Mass. was the
scene of frightful railroad accident on the
4th, the train being thrown from the track
by broken wheel A large number were
injured and several were killed.
THE attempt to establish fund for the
late Senator Logan's widow in New York
baby be again made under the direction of
General Fairchild. of the G. A. R.
The council of the Fenian Brotherhood at
New York recently issued another circular
denouncing O'Donovan Rosa.
AT St. Johnsburg recently William E.
Dian, of Wheelock. Vt. a small town in
the northern part of Caledonia County, was
lodged in Jail, charged with numbering his
infant daughter. l. is alleged that when
the infant was four months old Dian
crushed its head with blow of his fist.
This took place three years ago this winter,
and since that time the Dizans have lad
four children, two being twins. All these
infants Dian is alleged to have disposed of
in the same manner, crushing the heads
with blow of his fist
THE Knights of Labor in New York said
recently that the reported decision of dis
trlct assembly No. "A, Of Chicago. taking
back all the hard things said of Powderly,
will make no difference in the demand for q
special session Of the general assembly.
The evils which are to be remedied at the
special session are still in the order. and
they Say that unless a special session is
held the order will split in two before next
October.
TWENTY boys were coasting at Rutland,
VI, on the 5th- on traverse sled, when It
struck the side of bridge at the foot of
the hill, throwing the boys head first into
the stream. Cyril Gee. fifteen years old,
was thrown twenty feet. His head struck
against a stump, and the whole top of his
skull was crushed in and he was reported
dying John Kingsley. thirteen years old,
was injured internally and will probably
die. Thomas Shields, twelve years old, was
picked up unconscious. The remaining sew
enteen boys were more or less bruised, but
none seriously hurt.
ARCHBISHOP KIRBY wrote recently from
Rome to Mr.. Moriarity. OF Syracuse. n. Y.
and said that the Pope was enjoying good
health, but the reigning authorities con-
tinued to wage an implacable war against
the Church and all its sacred institutions.
A RECENT New York special said that
John Baird, the Scotch engineer who su-
perintended the construction of the ele-
waited railroad Of that city and accumulated
a large fortune, had received decree in
his favor in his long contest with his wife
and children, who had tried to keep him In
an insane asylum while they spent his